Guará-parim

Guarapari lies on the coast of Espírito Santo, where rivers and inlets cut into the Atlantic shore. A village of Indigenous inhabitants developed here under Jesuit influence. In 1585 Father José de Anchieta built a chapel dedicated to Saint Anne and residences at the settlement. The village later became known as Guarapari and was raised to a town in 1679, amid the Portuguese occupation of the coast.